th'

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ð/, /ðə/
• Rhymes: -ə

Contraction

th’

1. (poetic, archaic) Contraction of the.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. , London: [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 152:

     And well beſeemes all knights of noble name, / That couett in th’immortall booke of fame / To be eternized, […]

   • 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies  (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, , page 1, column 1:

     Maſt. Good: Speake to th’Mariners: fall too’t, yarely, or we run our ſelues a ground, beſtirre, beſtirre.

   • 1613 (date written), William Shakespeare, [John Fletcher], “The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies  (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, , page 217, column 1:

     Then marke th’inducement. Thus it came; giue heede too’t:

   • 1796–1797, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “ Poems of 1976.”, in The Poetical and Dramatic Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge , volume I, London: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC, page 119:

     New life and joy th’ expanding floweret feels: / His pitying Mistress mourns, and mourning heals!

2. (archaic) Contraction of thou.
   • c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies  (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, , page 132, column 1:

     I. Th’art kinde.

3. (colloquial) Contraction of there.
   • 1891 Feb, Edith Brower, “Treshornish”, in The Overland Monthly, volume XVII, number 98, San Francisco: The Overland Monthly Publishing Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 135:

     She crossed her hand an’ turned her face up like a bird does, only th’ ain’t no birds what can sing like she did; seemed like she was n’t a‐doin’ of it at all,—voice came out of itself, like ’s if ’t was just a waitin’ for a change to git out.

Anagrams

• HT, h/t, ht

Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /h/

Determiner

th’

1. Munster form of d’ (“your sg”)

Yola

Etymology 1

Article

th'

1. Alternative form of a (“the”)
   • 1867, OBSERVATIONS BY THE EDITOR, page 18:

     Nich th' hie thoras o' Culpake.

   • 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 75:

     Fhaade th' veezer.

     What the wiser.

   • 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 80:

     Th' mucha zea sthroan.

     The great sea-strand.

Etymology 2

Pronoun

th'

1. Alternative form of thou (“you”)
   • 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 77:

     Th' weithest.

     Thou seemest.

Etymology 3

Determiner

th'

1. Alternative form of thee (“thy”)
   • 1867, CONGRATULATORY ADDRESS IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 114, line 1:

     MAI'T BE PLESANT TO TH' ECCELLENCIE

     MAY IT PLEASE YOUR EXCELLENCY

   • 1867, CONGRATULATORY ADDRESS IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 114, line 5:

     Th' Eccellencie.

     Your Excellency.

Etymology 4

Pronoun

th'

1. Alternative form of at (“that”)
   • 1867, CONGRATULATORY ADDRESS IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 114, lines 9-11:

     Yn ercha an aul o' while yt beeth wi gleezom o' core th' oure eyen dwytheth apan ye Vigere o'dicke Zouvereine, Wilyame ee Vourthe,

     In each and every condition it is with joy of heart that our eyes rest upon the representative of that Sovereign, William IV.,

References

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867